Erica Rodriguez, Ricki Albritton and Maxime Copley scored on penalty kicks following two overtime periods on Tuesday to lead the Sebring girls soccer team to a 3-1 victory over arch-rival Avon Park in the opening round of the Class 4A-District 10 soccer tournament at Palmetto High School. ...more

January 20, 2009

Johnequa Perry scored a game-high 13 points and Ja'mee Hawthorne chipped in 12 points as the Avon Park girls basketball team defeated Fort Meade 51-34 in a non-district match-up on Thursday. ...more

January 17, 2009

Junior Buck Schroeder scored two goals and junior Octavio Galvan added another, but the long holiday layoff was too much for the Sebring boys soccer team to overcome in a 6-3 loss to Braden River on Monday night. ...more

January 8, 2009

EDITOR'S NOTE: Plenty of big stories broke between the lines and on the playing fields, courts and tracks of the Heartland in 2008. Wins and losses aside, certain moments transcended the games themselves and stuck out as the top stories of the year. This is Highlands Today's annual year-end run of the stories we covered that had a major impact on the local sports scene. The ranking was determined by the sports department: Sports editor Brian Gjurgevich, senior sports writer Mark Pinson and sports reporter Chris Hoffman. ...more

December 31, 2008

Elisha Klatt took advantage of a nice pass from Austin Brady and netted the Sebring soccer team's lone goal of the game in a 1-1 tie with the host Brahmans in the Okeechobee Holiday Tournament on Monday. ...more

December 24, 2008

A long-awaited Florida High School Athletic Association football district realignment was announced on Monday afternoon, and its effects will be felt across all three Highlands County high schools next fall. ...more

December 17, 2008

Defense has been the Avon Park boy's basketball team's calling card all season, and guard Derrick McKenzie made a point to let Braden River experience it first hand. ...more

December 4, 2008

Andy Bonjokian had little time to digest his first season as head coach of the Avon Park football team before questions flooded him about next year. ...more

November 28, 2008

The Sebring boys soccer team didn't fair well when facing Palmetto for the second time in four days on Monday night, as the Blue Streaks fell 6-0 to the Tigers in a Class 4A-District 10 match at Firemen's Field. ...more

November 26, 2008

Yuridia Terrones completed scored a hat trick and Erica Resendez added two goals on Tuesday to lead the in Lake Placid girls soccer team to a 5-2 victory over LaBelle. ...more

November 20, 2008